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1890 (MDCCCXC) was
a common year starting
on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and
a common
year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1890th year of
the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini(AD) designations, the 890th
year of the 2nd millennium,
the 90th year of the 19th century,
and the 1st year of the 1890s decade. As of
the start of 1890, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian
calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths · 5Further
reading and year books Events[edit]
January 25: Nellie Bly, 1890 January–March[edit] ·
The Kingdom of Italy establishes Eritrea as its colony, in the Horn of Africa. ·
In Michigan, the wooden steamer Mackinaw burns
in a fire on the Black River.[1] ·
The
steamship Persia is wrecked off Corsica; 130 lives are lost.[2] ·
Alice
Sanger becomes the first female staffer in the White House.[3] ·
January 11 – 1890 British
Ultimatum: The United Kingdom demands Portugal withdraw its
forces, from the land between the Portuguese colonies of Mozambique and Angola (most
of present-day Zimbabwe and Zambia). ·
January 15 – The Sleeping
Beauty, with music by Tchaikovsky,
is premiered at the Imperial Mariinsky
Theatre in St Petersburg, Russia. ·
The United Mine Workers
of America is founded. ·
Nellie Bly completes her
round-the-world journey in 72 days. ·
February 9 – The Weather Bureau is established, within
the United
States Department of Agriculture. ·
February 11 – The city of Araucária is founded in Brazil. ·
February 17[dubious – discuss] – The British steamship Duburg is
wrecked in the South China Sea;
400 lives are lost.[2][4] ·
February 24 – Chicago is selected to host the Columbian
Exposition. ·
March 1 ·
The
British steamship Quetia founders in the Torres Straits; 124
lives are lost.[2] ·
Léon Bourgeois succeeds Jean Antoine
Ernest Constans, as French Minister
of the Interior. ·
March 3 – The first American football game
in Ohio State
University history is played in Delaware, Ohio, against Ohio
Wesleyan, with the Ohio State
Buckeyes winning 20–14.
·
March 4 – The Forth Bridge, across the Firth of Forth in Scotland, is opened
to rail traffic. ·
March 8 – North
Dakota State University is founded in Fargo. ·
March 17 – The first railway in Transvaal,
the Randtram, opens between Boksburg and Braamfontein in Johannesburg.[5][6] ·
March 20 – Kaiser Wilhelm II dismisses Otto von Bismarck. ·
March 27 – March 1890 middle Mississippi Valley tornado outbreak:
24 significant tornadoes are spawned by one system, killing least 146 people. ·
March 27 – Preston North End retain
the English Football League Championship, winning their final game at Notts County ·
March 28 – Washington
State University is founded in Pullman. April–June[edit]
·
April 2 – Kashihara Shrine, a landmark spot in Nara Prefecture, Japan, is officially built by Emperor Mutsuhito(Emperor
of Meiji).[citation needed] ·
April 14 – At the First International Conference of American States,
in Washington DC, The Commercial Bureau of the American Republics is founded. ·
May 1 – A coordinated series of mass
rallies and one-day strikes is held throughout many cities and mining towns,
in Europe and North America, to demand an eight-hour workday.[7] ·
May 2 – President Benjamin Harrison
signs the Oklahoma Organic Act,
under which Oklahoma Territory is
organized, a prerequisite for later statehood. ·
May 12 – The first ever official English County Championship cricket match begins in Bristol; Yorkshire beats Gloucestershire,
by 8 wickets. ·
May 20 – Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh moves to Auvers-sur-Oise on the edge of Paris,
in the care of Dr Paul Gachet, where
he will produce around seventy paintings in as many days. ·
May 31 – The 5-story skylight Arcade opens in Cleveland, Ohio. ·
June 1 – The United States
Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to
tabulate censusreturns using punched card input, a landmark in
the history of
computing hardware. Hollerith's company eventually becomes IBM. ·
June 12 – In Michigan, the wooden steamer Ryan is
lost near Thunder Bay Island.[1] ·
June 20 – The Picture of
Dorian Gray (by Oscar Wilde) is published by
Philadelphia-based Lippincott's
Monthly Magazine (dated July). ·
June 27 – Canadian-born boxer George Dixon defeats
the British bantamweight champion
in London, giving him claim to be the first black world champion in any sport.[8]
July–September[edit] ·
July 1 ·
Heligoland-Zanzibar
Treaty: Britain cedes the Heligoland islands (in the German Bight) to Germany, in return for
protectorates over Wituland and
the Sultanate of
Zanzibar (the islands of Pemba and Unguja) in east Africa.[9] ·
Japanese
general election, 1890: In the first general election for
the House
of Representatives of Japan, about 5% of the adult male population
elect a lower house of the Diet of Japan, in accordance with the
new Meiji Constitution of 1889. ·
July 2 – The Sherman Antitrust
Act and Sherman
Silver Purchase Act become United States law. ·
July 3 – Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state. ·
July 10 – Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state. ·
July 13 – In Minnesota, storms result in the Sea Wing disaster on Lake Pepin, killing 98. ·
July 14 – Lime-green is first described as a
color.[10] ·
July 26 – In Buenos Aires, the Revolution of the
Park takes place, forcing President Juárez Celman's
resignation. ·
July 27 – Death of
Vincent van Gogh: van Gogh shoots himself, dying two days later. ·
August 6 – At Auburn
Prison in New York, William Kemmler becomes the first
person to be executed in
the electric chair. ·
August 20 – Treaty of London:
Portugal and the United Kingdom define the borders of the Portuguese colonies
of Mozambiqueand Angola. ·
August 23 – The BOVESPA stock exchange is founded. ·
August – Kaiser Wilhelm II and
Tsar Alexander III meet
at Narva. ·
September 6 – Dublin association football club Bohemian F.C. is founded in the Gate
Lodge, Phoenix Park. ·
September 12 – Salisbury, Rhodesia is
founded. ·
The
Turkish frigate Ertuğrul founders
off Japan; 540 lives are lost.[2] ·
The University of
North Texas is founded, as the Texas Normal College and
Teacher Training Institute.[11] October–December[edit]
November: New Scotland Yard opens near the Big Benclock tower.
·
October 9 – The first brief flight
of Clément Ader's
steam-powered fixed-wing aircraft Ader Éole takes place in Satory, France. It flies uncontrolled
approximately 50 m (160 ft) at a height of 20 cm (7.9 in),
the first take-off of a powered airplane solely under its own power.[12][13][14] ·
October 11 – In Washington, D.C., the Daughters
of the American Revolution is founded. ·
October 12 – In Uddevalla, the Uddevalla
Suffrage Association is founded, with a formal founding event
on November 2 a month later. ·
In Michigan, the schooner J.F. Warner is
lost at Thunder Bay.[1] ·
The Delta Chi fraternity is founded by 11
law students at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. ·
November 4 – The first deep level
London Underground (Tube) Railway, the City and
South London Railway, opens officially. ·
November 21 – Edward
King, Anglican bishop of Lincoln,
is convicted of using ritualistic
practices.[15] ·
November 23 – King William
III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir, and his
daughter Princess
Wilhelmina becomes Queen, causing the end of the personal
union of thrones with Luxembourg (which
requires a male heir) so that Adolphe,
Duke of Nassau becomes Grand Duke of
Luxembourg. ·
The Meiji Constitution goes
into effect in Japan, and its first Diet convenes. ·
At West Point, New York,
the United States Navy defeats the United States Army 24–0 in the first Army–Navy Game of college football. ·
November – Scotland Yard, headquarters of the Metropolitan
Police Service, moves to a building on London's Victoria Embankment,
as New Scotland Yard. ·
December 15 – Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull is killed by police
on Standing
Rock Indian Reservation. ·
December 27 – The British
steamship Shanghai burns
in the East China Sea off
the coast of Anhui Province; 101 lives are lost.[16] ·
December 29 – Wounded Knee
Massacre: At Wounded Knee,
South Dakota, a Native American camp, the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment tries
to disperse the non-violent "Ghost-Dance" which was promised to
usher in a new era of power and freedom to Native Americans but is feared as
a potential rallying tool for violent rebellion by some in the U.S.
government. Shooting begins, and 153 Lakota Sioux and 25 troops are killed;
about 150 flee the scene. This is the last tribe to be defeated and confined
to a reservation as
well as the beginning of the decline of both the American Indian Wars and
the American frontier. Date unknown[edit] ·
The folding carton box is invented by Robert Gair, a Brooklyn printer who developed
production of paper-board boxes in 1879. ·
The
United States city of Boise, Idaho, drills the first geothermal well. ·
Brown trout are introduced into the
upper Firehole River,
in Yellowstone
National Park. ·
High School Cadets is written by John Philip Sousa. ·
William II of
Prussia opposes Bismarck's attempt to renew the law outlawing
the Social
Democratic Party. ·
Blackwall Buildings, Whitechapel, noted philanthropic housing, is built in
the East End of London. ·
English
archaeologist Flinders Petrie excavates
at Tell el-Hesi, Palestine (mistakenly
identified as Tel Lachish), the
first scientific excavation of an archaeological site in the Holy Land, during which he discovers
how tells are
formed. ·
American geostrategist Alfred Thayer Mahan publishes
his influential book The
Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783. ·
Francis Galton announces a statistical
demonstration of the uniqueness and classifiability of individual human fingerprints.[17] ·
Alfred Tucker becomes Anglican Bishop of Eastern Equatorial
Africa.[18] ·
The
Ohio Northern University Marching Band is founded as a part of the military
department. Now known as the “Star of Northwest Ohio” they perform regularly
each football season and travel across the world through their sponsoring
university. [19] Births[edit] January[edit]
·
January 1 – Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (d. 1966) ·
January 4 – Victor Lustig, Bohemian-born con artist
(d. 1947) ·
January 5 – Sarah Aaronsohn, member of the Jewish spy
ring Nili (d. 1917) ·
January 8 – Taixu, Chinese Buddhist activist (d. 1947) ·
Kurt Tucholsky, German-born journalist and
satirist (d. 1935) ·
Karel Čapek, Czech writer (d. 1938) ·
January 11 – Oswald de Andrade,
Brazilian Modernist writer
(d.1954) ·
January 13 – Jüri Uluots, 8th Prime Minister of Estonia
(d. 1945) ·
January 19 – Élise Rivet, French Roman Catholic nun and
war heroine (d. 1945) ·
January 20 – Boris Kozo-Polyansky,
Russian botanist and evolutionary biologist (d. 1957) ·
January 21 – Wesley Englehorn, American football player
(d. 1993) ·
January 22 – Fred M. Vinson, Chief
Justice of the United States (d. 1953) ·
Néstor Guillén,
Bolivian politician, 47th President of Bolivia (d. 1966) ·
Robert Franklin
Stroud, Birdman of Alcatraz (d. 1963) February[edit] ·
February 9 – Carolina
Nabuco, Brazilian writer and translator (d. 1981) ·
February 10 – Boris Pasternak, Russian writer (Doctor Zhivago), Nobel Prize laureate
(declined) (d. 1960) ·
February 14 – Nina Hamnett, Welsh painter (d. 1956) ·
February 15 – Matome Ugaki, Japanese admiral (d. 1945) ·
February 16 – Francesco de Pinedo,
Italian aviator (d. 1933) ·
February 17 – Ronald Fisher, English statistician and
geneticist (d. 1962) ·
Edward Arnold,
American actor (d. 1956) ·
Adolphe Menjou, American actor (d. 1963) ·
February 24 – Marjorie Main, American actress (d. 1975) ·
Dame Myra Hess, English pianist (d. 1965) ·
Kiyohide Shima, Japanese admiral (d. 1973) ·
Freddie Keppard, American jazz musician
(d. 1933) ·
Art Smith,
American pilot (d. 1926) March[edit]
·
March 4 – Norman Bethune, Canadian doctor and
humanitarian (d. 1939) ·
March 8 – Eugeniusz Baziak, Polish Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1962) ·
March 9 ·
(new
style) Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet politician (d. 1986) ·
Rupert Balfe, Australian
rules footballer (d. 1915) ·
March 11 – Vannevar Bush, American engineer, inventor,
and politician (d. 1960) ·
March 19 – Nancy Elizabeth
Prophet, African-American artist known for her sculpture.
(d. 1960) ·
March 20 ·
Beniamino Gigli, Italian tenor (d. 1957) ·
Fania Marinoff, Russian born American
actress (d. 1971) ·
Lauritz Melchior, Danish-American tenor
(d. 1973) ·
March 26 – Aaron S. "Tip" Merrill, American
admiral (d. 1961) ·
March 28 – Paul Whiteman, American bandleader (d. 1967) ·
March 31 – William Lawrence
Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971) April[edit] ·
April 6 – Anthony Fokker, Dutch aircraft manufacturer
(d. 1939) ·
April 7 ·
Paul Berth, Danish amateur footballer
(d. 1969) ·
Marjory Stoneman
Douglas, American conservationist and writer (d. 1998) ·
Harry W. Hill, American admiral (d. 1971) ·
April 13 ·
Frank Murphy, American politician and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States (d. 1949) ·
Dadasaheb Torne, Indian filmmaker (d. 1960) ·
April 11 – Rachele Mussolini,
Italian, wife of Benito Mussolini (d. 1979) ·
April 15 – Percy Shaw, British inventor (d. 1976) ·
April 16 ·
Fred Root, English cricketer (d. 1954) ·
Vernon Sturdee, Australian general (d. 1966) ·
April 17 – Victor Chapman, French-American fighter
pilot (d. 1916) ·
April 18 – Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (d.1958) ·
April 20 ·
Maurice Duplessis, premier of Quebec (d. 1959) ·
Adolf Schärf, former President of Austria (d. 1965) ·
April 21 – Michitaro Tozuka, Japanese admiral (d. 1966) ·
April 24 – Masatane Kanda, Japanese general (d. 1983) ·
April 26 – Edgar Kennedy, American comedic actor
(d. 1948) ·
April 29 – Daisy Fellowes, French society figure,
writer and heiress (d. 1962) ·
April 30 – Géza Lakatos, 36th Prime Minister of Hungary
(d. 1967) May[edit]
·
May 1 – Laurence Wild, 1913
NCAA Men's Basketball All-American, former head coach for
the Navy
Midshipmen men's basketball, and 30th Governor of
American Samoa (d. 1971) ·
May 4 – Franklin Carmichael,
Canadian artist (d. 1945) ·
May 7 – George Archainbaud,
French film director (d. 1959) ·
May 10 – Alfred Jodl, German general (executed)
(d. 1946) ·
May 11 – Woodall Rodgers, mayor of Dallas, Texas (d. 1961) ·
May 15 – Katherine Anne
Porter, American author (d. 1980) ·
May 19 – Ho Chi Minh, Prime minister/President
of North Vietnam (d. 1969) ·
May 23 – Herbert Marshall, English actor (d. 1966) June[edit]
·
June 1 – Frank Morgan, American actor (d. 1949) ·
June 6 – Ted Lewis,
American jazz musician and entertainer (d. 1971) ·
June 10 – William A. Seiter,
American film director (d. 1964) ·
June 11 – Béla Miklós, 38th Prime Minister of Hungary
(d. 1948) ·
June 12 – Junius Matthews, American actor (d. 1978) ·
June 16 – Stan Laurel, English-born actor (d. 1965) ·
June 17 – Hatazō Adachi, Japanese general
(d. 1947) ·
June 21 – Lewis H. Brereton,
American aviation pioneer and air force general (d. 1967) ·
June 23 – Salvatore Papaccio,
Italian tenor (d. 1977) ·
June 25 – Charlotte Greenwood,
American actress (d. 1977) ·
June 26 ·
Oscar C. Badger II,
American admiral (d. 1958) ·
Jeanne Eagels, American actress (d. 1929) ·
June 28 – William H. P. Blandy,
American admiral (d. 1954) ·
June 29 ·
Hendrikje
van Andel-Schipper, Dutch supercentenarian (d. 2005) ·
Pietro Montana, Italian-American sculptor,
painter and teacher (d. 1978) ·
June 30 ·
Gertrude McCoy, American actress (d. 1967) ·
Paul Boffa, 5th Prime Minister of Malta
(d. 1962) July[edit]
·
July 9 – Joseph-Alphida Crête,
Canadian politician (d. 1964) ·
July 10 – Leo Rush, Australian rules footballer
(d. 1983) ·
July 11 – Arthur
Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder, British air force air marshal (d. 1967) ·
July 16 ·
Carmelo Flores Laura,
Bolivian supercentenarian (d. 2014) ·
Carlos
Carmelo Vasconcellos Motta, Brazilian cardinal (d. 1982) ·
July 18 – Frank Forde, 15th Prime Minister of
Australia (d. 1983) ·
July 20 – Verna Felton, American character actress
(d. 1966) ·
July 22 – Rose Kennedy, American philanthropist and matriarch of
the Kennedy family (d. 1995) ·
July 26 ·
Daniel J. Callaghan,
American admiral and Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1942) ·
Seiichi Itō, Japanese admiral (d. 1945) ·
July 29 – P. S.
Subrahmanya Sastri, Sanskrit scholar. First to translate
Tolkāppiyam into English (d. 1978) August[edit]
·
August 2 – Marin Sais, American film actress (d. 1971) ·
August 3 – Konstantin Melnikov,
Russian avant-garde architect (d. 1974) ·
August 4 – Erich Weinert, German writer and political
activist (d. 1953) ·
August 5 – Erich Kleiber, Austrian conductor (d. 1956) ·
Angus L. Macdonald, Nova Scotia Premier (d. 1954) ·
Bechara El Khoury,
2-Time Prime Minister and 2-Time President of Lebanon (d. 1964) ·
Jacques Ibert, French composer (d. 1962) ·
Elizabeth Bolden, American, last verified
person born in 1890 (d. 2006) ·
August 18 – Walther Funk, German politician (d. 1960) ·
August 20 – H. P. Lovecraft, American writer (d. 1937) ·
Hans-Joachim
Buddecke, German World War I fighter pilot and ace
(d. 1918) ·
Cecil Kellaway, South African character actor (d. 1973) ·
Henry
"Son" Sims, American Delta blues fiddler and songwriter (d. 1958) ·
August 24 – Duke Kahanamoku, American swimmer (d. 1968) September[edit]
·
September 9 – Colonel Sanders, Founder of KFC (d. 1980) ·
September 8 – Dorothy Price, Irish physician (d. 1954) ·
Elsa Schiaparelli,
French couturiere (d. 1973) ·
Sir Mortimer Wheeler, British archaeologist
(d. 1976) ·
Agatha Christie, English writer (d. 1976) ·
Frank Martin,
Swiss composer (d. 1974) ·
Jelly Roll Morton,
American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1941) ·
Rachel Bluwstein, Israeli poet (d. 1931) ·
September 21 – Max Immelmann, German World War I fighter
ace (d. 1916) ·
Kakuji Kakuta, Japanese admiral (d. 1944) ·
Friedrich Paulus, German field marshal
(d. 1957) ·
September 24 – A. P. Herbert, English humorist, novelist,
playwright and law reform activist (d. 1971) October[edit]
·
Katherine Corri
Harris, American socialite and actoress, first wife of John Barrymore (d. 1927) ·
Stanley Holloway, English actor (d. 1982) ·
Alice Joyce, American silent film actress
(d. 1955) ·
Blanche Oelrichs, American poet, second wife
of John Barrymore (d. 1950) ·
October 2 – Groucho Marx, American comedian (d. 1977) ·
October 6 – Jack Rockwell, Mexican-American actor
(d. 1947) ·
Henrich Focke, German aviation pioneer
(d. 1979) ·
Eddie Rickenbacker,
race car driver and American World War I fighter pilot (d. 1973) ·
October 9 – Aimee Semple McPherson,
Canadian-American Pentecostal Evangelist (d. 1944) ·
October 13 – Conrad Richter, American novelist and short
story writer (d. 1968) ·
October 14 – Dwight D. Eisenhower,
U.S. general and 34th President
of the United States (d. 1969) ·
Michael
Collins, Irish patriot (d. 1922) ·
Paul Strand, American photographer (d. 1976) ·
October 17 – Roy Kilner, English cricketer (d. 1928) ·
October 20 – Sherman Minton, American politician
and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States (d. 1965) ·
October 23 – Abdul Hamid Karami,
16th Prime Minister of Lebanon (d. 1950) ·
October 25 – Floyd Bennett, American aviator and explorer
(d. 1928) ·
October 26 – John Aae, Norwegian politician (d. 1968) ·
October 29 – Hans-Valentin Hube,
German army general (d. 1944) November[edit] ·
Tomitarō Horii,
Japanese general (d. 1942) ·
Jan Matulka, American painter (d. 1972) ·
November 8 – Conrad Weygand, German chemist (d. 1945) ·
November 16 – Elpidio Quirino, 6th President of
the Philippines (d. 1956) ·
November 20 – Leon Cadore, American baseball pitcher
(d. 1968) ·
November 22 – Charles de Gaulle, President of France (d. 1970) ·
November 23 – El Lissitzky, Russian artist and architect
(d. 1941) December[edit] ·
David Bomberg, English painter (d. 1957) ·
Fritz Lang, German-Austrian filmmaker,
screenwriter, and actor (d. 1976) ·
December 6 – Dion Fortune, British occultist (d. 1946) ·
December 8 – Bohuslav
Martinů, Czech composer (d. 1959) ·
László Bárdossy,
33rd Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1946) ·
Henry Louis Larsen,
American Marine Corps General; Governor of
American Samoa and Governor of Guam (d. 1962) ·
December 11 – Carlos Gardel, Argentine tango singer (d. 1935) ·
December 12– Charles Basil Price,
Canadian soldier and politician (d. 1975) ·
December 20 – Jaroslav Heyrovský,
Czech chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1967) ·
December 21 – Hermann Joseph
Muller, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1967) ·
December 25 – Robert Ripley, American collector of odd
facts (d. 1949) ·
Uncle Charlie
Osborne, Appalachian fiddler (d. 1992) ·
Konstantinos
Georgakopoulos, Greek lawyer and professor, 152nd Prime Minister
of Greece (d. 1973) ·
Lanoe Hawker, British fighter pilot
(d. 1916) ·
Adolfo Ruiz Cortines,
47th President of Mexico (d. 1973) Unknown date[edit] ·
Hatı
Çırpan, Turkish politician (d. 1956) ·
Saadi Al Munla, 17th Prime Minister of
Lebanon (d. 1975) ·
Lydia Zvereva, first Russian woman to earn a
pilot's license (d. 1916) Deaths[edit] January–June[edit]
Augusta
of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
·
January 7 – Augusta
of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Empress Consort of William I,
German Emperor (b. 1811) ·
January 18 – King Amadeus I of Spain (b. 1845) ·
February 18 – Gyula Andrássy,
4th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1823) ·
John Jacob Astor III,
American businessman (b. 1822) ·
Carl Heinrich Bloch,
Danish painter (b. 1834) ·
January 23 – Emily Jane Pfeiffer,
Welsh poet and philanthropist (b. 1827) ·
March 3 – Innocenzo da Berzo,
Capuchin friar (b. 1844) ·
March 7 – Karl Rudolf
Friedenthal, Prussian statesman (b. 1827) ·
March 9 – Sir Mangaldas Nathubhoy,
Indian politician (b. 1832) ·
March 16 – Princess
Zorka of Montenegro (b. 1864) ·
March 23 – Mary Jane Katzmann,
Canadian historian (b. 1828) ·
April 1 ·
David Wilber, American politician (b. 1820) ·
Alexander Mozhaysky,
Russian aeronautical pioneer (b. 1825) ·
April 11 ·
David de
Jahacob Lopez Cardozo, Dutch Talmudist (b. 1808) ·
Joseph Merrick (The Elephant Man),
English oddity (b. 1862) ·
April 19 – James Pollock, American politician (b. 1810) ·
June 24 – Subba Row,
Hindu theosophist (b. 1856) ·
June 30 – Samuel Parkman
Tuckerman, American composer (b. 1819) July–December[edit]
William
III of the Netherlands
·
July 7 – Henri Nestlé, Swiss confectioner and the
founder of Nestlé (b. 1814) ·
July 9 – Clinton B. Fisk, American philanthropist and temperance activist
(b. 1828) ·
July 13 ·
John C. Frémont,
American explorer and military officer (b. 1813) ·
Johann Voldemar
Jannsen, Estonian journalist and poet (b. 1819) ·
July 15 – Gottfried Keller, Swiss writer (b. 1819) ·
July 29 – Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (b. 1853) ·
August 6 – William Kemmler, American murderer, first
person executed in the electric chair (b. 1860) ·
August 10 – John Boyle O'Reilly,
Irish-born poet, journalist and fiction writer (b. 1844) ·
August 11 – John Henry Newman,
English Roman Catholic Cardinal (b. 1801) ·
October 4 – Catherine Booth, Mother of The Salvation Army (b. 1829) ·
October 20 – Richard Francis
Burton, English explorer, linguist, soldier (b. 1820) ·
October 26 – Carlo Collodi, Italian writer (The
Adventures of Pinocchio) (b. 1826) ·
November 3 – Ulrich Ochsenbein, member
of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1811) ·
November 4 – Félix du
Temple de la Croix, French Army Captain & aviation pioneer
(b. 1823) ·
November 7 – Comanche, American horse, survivor of Custer's
cavalry at the Battle of
the Little Bighorn ·
November 8 – César Franck, Belgian composer and organist
(b. 1822) ·
November 11 – Marie-Charles
David de Mayréna, French adventurer and self-styled King
of Sedang (b. 1842) ·
November 23 – King William
III of the Netherlands (b. 1817) ·
November 24 – August Belmont, Sr., Prussian-born financier
(b. 1816) ·
December 15 – Sitting Bull, Native American chief (b.
c. 1831) ·
December 21 – Johanne Luise
Heiberg, Danish actress (b. 1812) ·
December 26 – Heinrich Schliemann,
German archaeologist (b. 1822) ·
December 31 – Pancha Carrasco, Costa Rican war heroine
(b. 1826) Date unknown[edit] ·
Ann
Leah Underhill, one of the Uck
sisters, American fraudulent medium (b. 1814) References[edit] 1.
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